DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH

Name : J.Srinivasa Rao

Designation : Lecturer
Branch : Electronics & Communications
Institution : Govt Polytechnic Bellampally
Year/semester : VI semester
Subject : Analytical Instrumentation
Subject Code : AEI- 603
Topic : Computer Applications in Medicine
Duration : 50mts
Sub Topic : Earth free patient monitoring and
standards

Teaching aids :Diagrams, PPT

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 OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this period, you would be able to
know

• Earth free patient monitoring

• standards

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 RECAP

In the previous class we have studied about

• Patient safety
• Microshock
• Macroshock
• Preventive measures to reduce the shock hazards
• Maintaining the safe patient electrical environment

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 EARTH FREE PATIENT MONITORING

• The use of single instrument with earthed patient circuits is

not particularly hazardous.
• The use of a number of devices connected simultaneously to
the same patient ,increases the technical problems of
protection.
• Therefore the use of earth-free equipment is becoming
necessary.

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A BASIC EARTH-FREE INSTRUMENT

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 A BASIC EARTH-FREE INSTRUMENT

• The Earth-free instrument has a main transformer

with an earthed inter winding screen to provide the
major internal power supplies.

• Most of the circuits and all the exposed networks

are earthed.

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 STANDARDS

• On account of the major importance of electrical

safety factors in the design, production and usage of
medical equipment ,standards have been set for this
field.

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 STANDARDS

• One such standard is given by the Bureau of Indian

standards under ‘Medical Electrical Equipment part 1

• The standards state that the “Equipment shall be

designed that the risk of electrical shock in normal
use and in single fault condition is obviated as far as
possible”

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A EARTH-FREE INSTRUMENT ASSEMBLY
FREE FROM MOST RISKS

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 Single fault conditions

• Interruption of a protective earth conductor

• Interruption of a one supply conductor

• Appearance of an external voltage on an F-type

applied part

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 Single fault conditions

• Appearance of an external voltage on a signal input

or on a signal output part

• Failure of an electrical component which might

cause a safety hazard

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 STANDARDS

Current type Normal Single fault

condition(mA) condition(mA)
Earth leakage 0.5 1.0
current(general)
Enclosure 0.1 0.5
leakage current
Patient leakage 0.01 0.05
current
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 SUMMARY

We have discussed

• Earth free patient monitoring

• Standards

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 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

• Explain about the Earth free patient monitoring

• Explain the standards of earth free patient
monitoring

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